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Their diverse backgrounds led them to their natural subject, the often amusing conflict of cultures. Their limited budgets forced them to work on canvases that were, by Hollywood standards, miniature. A Room with a View, their best picture so far, is an exquisite, almost delicious comedy of manners about Edwardian conventions being routed by the warming sun of Italy...
...British cartoons both the ship and the iceberg have represented Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher." The Titanic is also a lure for trivia buffs: "Who led the ship's band? (Wallace Hartley.) Which smokestack was the dummy? (The fourth.)" And the tragedy furnishes social historians with a cutaway of Edwardian strata: "Should normal Class Precedence prevail," the crew wondered, "or the rule of 'Women and children first'?" Last year the Titanic's wreckage was spotted on the Atlantic floor, and speculation began anew. Could the accident have been avoided? Why did so many lifeboats leave only half filled? One fact...
...newest cotton-reel magnate as though he were descended from Bayard. Sixty years after his death, his "paughtraits" (as Sargent, who kept swearing he would give them up but never did, disparagingly called them) provoke unabashed nostalgia. In his Belle Epoque sirens, in the mild, arrogant masks of his Edwardian gentry, are preserved the lineaments of a world soon to be buried like Pompeii, along with Sargent's own reputation, beneath the ash and rubble of World War I. Of course, he had to be revived. In Reagan's America, you cannot keep a good courtier down. Perhaps the rhinos...
...year lease that covered the entire edifice. Estimated annual rent: $1 million. Now fitted with hand- carved mahogany woodwork and custom-forged brass trim, and dappled with expansive Oriental rugs and sprays of orchids, the store evokes the imagined atmosphere of a London men's club or a distinguished Edwardian hotel. The display space is cluttered with props, including English saddles, bulbous trophies, top hats and a rack of billiard cues. "Lauren is the only designer with the product range to have such a store," says Nina Hyde, fashion editor of the Washington Post. Some shoppers, though, view the store...
...mile-square City of London, Britain's once staid financial heart, events are exploding in most ungentlemanly fashion. Venerable brokerage houses that have dozed along contentedly almost since Edwardian times are merging or being snapped up by marauding U.S., Japanese or French financial institutions. Pinstripe City men who have known each other since Oxford or Cambridge days are rubbing shoulders with rough-and-tumble stock traders who sport little of the old-school polish but plenty of the street savvy that has suddenly become worth unheard-of six-figure salaries. Unable to contain the activity, the City is bursting...